On Saturday, Josh and I went out on our first date since Becca has been home. Debbie, another Ph.D in Linguistics student in our church, offered to watch Becca and we took her up on her offer. We think Becca was pretty good for Debbie, though she didn’t sleep the whole time, as I’d hoped.

Josh and I went to an Indian restaurant and then walked around at a park. The weather was gorgeous and it was nice to be outside. While walking on a trail, Josh spotted a little mouse, and we saw lots of fish and turtles at the pond. We’re looking forward to taking Becca with us to the park, when she’s allowed to leave the house.

After my outing to the mall yesterday, I’ve decided that I need to get out more for I did two things uncharacteristic of my usual mall trips. My goal was to get to make a return and run to the grocery store in between Becca’s feedings. While I met my first goal of making the return, I also made 3 dollars by testing two hot dogs and filling out a survey about them, and I got a free makeover at a make-up store.

This week Becca celebrates several birthdays: she turns 17 weeks today, 4 months on Friday, and her “adjusted” age hit 1 month this past Monday. She now weighs 8lbs and 12oz. Yesterday Becca rolled over, from her tummy to her back, for the first time.

We’ve been working on tummy-time with Becca. When she came home from the NICU, Becca loved being on her tummy and hated being on her back. But since she had to sleep on her back, Becca now loves being on her back and only tolerates her tummy for a little while. We have tummy play-time each day and work with Becca’s tracking and practice lifting her head. Becca continues to enjoy doing things with her mommy and daddy. Last night she helped me make her daddy’s lunch.

This week Grandpa and Grandma Jensen came for a visit. Becca enjoyed spending time with her grandparents. I was hoping she would spit-up all over Grandpa J; she instead saved all her spit-up for when her grandparents were at church

According to Weather.com, Arlington got 0.57 inches of precipitation on the first day of spring…but not the kind of precipitation you would expect for this time of year!

When people ask me Becca’s age, I’m never sure what to answer. Today she is 16 weeks old, but her “adjusted” age puts her at 3 weeks old. So we have a 16 and 3 week-old baby in our home!

Nothing new to report this week; Becca continues to do well and is keeping us entertained. You might notice that Becca is shirtless in the pictures of me bottle-feeding her. Becca is quite the little spit-upper. She usually manages to spit-up all over her clothes…and sometimes she manages to spit up all over my clothes!

Josh is on Spring Break this week, and we’ve enjoyed having him home with us. Tomorrow Grandpa and Grandma Jensen fly in for a weekend visit. We’re looking forward to visiting with them both.

Yesterday marked a month since we brought Becca home from the NICU, and we celebrated by saying “bye-bye” (as our pediatrician said) to Becca’s monitor. For the first time ever, we have a cordless baby! It’s so nice to be able to pick up Becca and carry her around our apartment, without having to worry about tripping over the cord or carrying the monitor – I love it! We even walked Daddy partway to class last night.

Yesterday, Becca also got her first set of shots, and today we went to Cook’s Hospital to get her Synagis injection. Besides the initial screams when being pricked with the needles, Becca has done great with all her shots.

Becca’s weight is 8lbs and she’s 19 inches long, and the doctor is pleased with her progress. We continue to enjoy having our little girl home with us. I love watching Josh with Becca. He’s working with her on learning to count in Jarai. Josh also found some interesting ways to watch her while he works on computer. I found out this week that I don’t have to be back at school until April 20th. This is an answer to prayer and I’m grateful for the extra time I’ll have at home with Becca.

Happy 14-week birthday, Becca! Monday, Becca had her follow-up eye appointment and passed with flying colors. The blood vessels behind her eyes stopped multiplying and are considered ordinary for a newborn. We don’t have a new weight to post for this week. Tomorrow Becca has her OT appointment and they’ll weigh her there. We’ve had a nice week and are enjoying our little girl. Becca enjoyed helping Josh enter students’ grades this week, after her bath-time with me.

Yesterday marked the 3-year anniversary of the day Josh asked me to be his girlfriend. I’m delighted that we transitioned from the girlfriend/boyfriend stage to husband and wife and have enjoyed dating my husband these past 3 years. I am blessed to be called Josh Jensen’s wife.

97 days ago, Josh and I were given some new jewelry to wear from Arlington Memorial Hospital. Our bracelets gave us the privileged to enter the NICU and visit our precious baby girl. 21 days ago, Becca left the NICU and our jewelry was no longer needed; however, we both had become so used to our bands that we never cut them off.  This past Monday night, we decided to officially end our NICU era by cutting off our hospital bands. I don’t think either of us will miss our bands, and we’re hoping the next time we wear such jewelry it will only be for a few short days!